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senior and men
Many of the men on our campus have a pretty set curriculum, especially in the various engineering fields, with few electives till the senior year.
Each section had an enrollee " senior leader " and " assistant leader " who were accountable for the men at work and in the barracks.
The men of senior regiments would wear, in addition to their other headdress, the head-ring ( isicoco ) denoting their married state.
And as time went by, Ribbentrop started to oust the Foreign Office's old diplomats from their senior positions and replace them with men from the Dienststelle.
He placed loyal but often unqualified Cyrenaicans in all senior command positions, limited the armed forces to 6, 500 men, kept the army lightly armed, and built up two rival paramilitary units, the National Security Force and the Cyrenaican Defence Force which was recruited from Cyrenaican Bedouin loyal to the Sanussi.
The Inspector General of the CIA conducted an internal review of the CIA's performance prior to 9 / 11, and was harshly critical of senior CIA officials for not doing everything possible to confront terrorism, including failing to stop two of the 9 / 11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, as they entered the United States and failing to share information on the two men with the FBI.
At the UCI Track World Championships, the distance for senior men is 1000 metres, hence the event's alternative name, the ' Kilo ', short for kilometer.
They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity ; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding ; almost anyone sharing personal information-especially plans for returning home-would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die ( or both, in quick succession ).
The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.
OLAB is a one-week hands-on introduction to business and the market economy for young women and men entering their senior year in high school.
When Patton and Eisenhower met in the mid 1920s, Patton was six years Eisenhower's senior in the Army and Eisenhower saw Patton as a leading mind in tank warfare, as both men had strong interest in tank warfare.
The United States Navy decided to send eight men to this project, including three civilians and one senior and four junior naval officers.
Raeder's strong authoritarian tendencies came to the fore as soon he assumed command of the Reichsmarine in 1928 when he sent out a circular making clear that dissent would not be allowed while at the same time carrying out the " great seal hunt " of 1928-29 when Raeder forced most of the senior admirals into early retirement in order to promote men who were loyal to him.
At the time of the Somme, British senior commanders insisted that the company ( 120 men ) was the smallest unit of manoeuvre ; less than a year later, the section of 10 men would be so .< ref >
Thus by parading this avoidance of their daughters, senior men make these girls available for younger age-sets and their marriages form alliances that mitigate the rivalries for power.
Congress temporarily suspended the ability to vote of approximately 10, 000 to 15, 000 white men who had been Confederate officials or senior officers, while constitutional amendments gave full citizenship and suffrage to former slaves.
He appointed several very able men to senior positions and they continued his work.
< span lang =" fr "> Constitutionnels </ span > were mostly rich and educated middle-class men: lawyers, senior officials of the Empire, and academics.
For the rare occurrence of a set-piece battle, the most senior of the gentry would break up the lances, organizing the men into the more familiar en bloc formation of individual arms: sergeants dismounting to form the main battle line with archers and crossbowmen in support.
Dr Allan Pacey ( senior lecturer in andrology at Sheffield University and secretary of the British Fertility Society ) notes that men who he sees for a vasectomy reversal which has not worked, express wishing they knew they could have stored sperm.
Robert Murphy took some men and then drove to the residence of General Alphonse Juin, the senior French Army officer in North Africa.
The voting and decision-making process at most colonies is based upon a two-tiered structure including a council — usually seven senior males — and the voting membership which includes all the married men of the colony.
The senior Canon was seized by John Pateschull ’ s men and imprisoned.
Despite the unprecedented size of Pompey's corps of legates — he received the right to appoint 24 of these senior adjutants — for his scourge of the pirates from the Mediterranean, Afranius did not number amongst them, as his patron chose to cultivate his links with the Roman aristocracy by appointing only men of distinguished family.

senior and BBC
The BBC say a great deal of research was undertaken such as talking to families with children who have Down's syndrome, and liaising with a senior midwife as well as the Down's Syndrome Association.
During a 2008 interview with the BBC, Major General Qian Lihua, a senior Chinese defense official, stated that the PLAN aspired to possess a small number of aircraft carriers to allow it to expand China's air defense perimeter.
She appeared in " Equal Opportunities ", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.
He would also slip in spoof commercials and sponsor's announcements for " Dobbiroids ", the wonder horse rejuvenator, or " Dobbimist " horse deodorant ( a cure for UFO: under-fetlock odour ), or " Dobbitex " horse cummerbunds-he would claim that he'd been " got at ": paid money to plug the product, because he claimed to be only paid a pittance as a senior BBC announcer, " I want things, I need things, things the other radio announcers have got!
Some of the actors, when not playing their characters, earn their money through different jobs altogether: Charlotte Connor, when not playing Susan Carter ( credited as Charlotte Martin ), works full-time as a senior research psychologist at the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation ; her office is a short walk from BBC Birmingham and thus is able to fit it around recordings.
King's resignation was considered a serious enough matter for the BBC to have senior journalist William Hardcastle announce it in a news flash.
One of Ulverston's lesser known sons is the late Bryan Martin, senior BBC Radio 4 Newsreader and Presenter of the 70s and 80s, whose dulcet tones on the " Today " programme announced to the country the death of Elvis Presley in 1977 and broke the news of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.
During the Second World War, Boult strove to maintain standards, but the senior management of the post-war BBC denied the orchestra the resources to meet competition from new and well-funded orchestras.
A senior BBC manager wrote, " Except when a Barbirolli or a Kletzki has been in charge for a few days, the Orchestra is inferior, as an artistic instrument, to the Hallé or Philharmonia.
The final one-off episode, " When I'm Sixty-Five ", was a Royal Command Performance in front of The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh and senior BBC management.
Some have been recognised for their achievements to British television with honours such as knighthoods, while others achieved senior posts such as Director-General of the BBC.
Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and contributing analyst to BBC World News America, and contributes to the new NBC News primetime newsmagazine Rock Center with Brian Williams.
On 29 May 2003, BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan filed a report for BBC Radio 4's Today programme in which he stated that an unnamed source-a senior British official-had told him that the September Dossier had been " sexed up ", and that the intelligence agencies were concerned about some " dubious " information contained within it-specifically the claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order to use them.
* The BBC News reported that Niaz Naik, a former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, claimed that he had been told by senior American officials in mid-July 2001 that military action against Afghanistan would begin by the middle of October at the latest.
Later, former Radio 3 controller John Drummond complained that the senior ranks of the BBC took no interest in what he was doing.
Newsnight is a BBC Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.
Several of the programme's editors over the years have gone on to senior positions within the BBC and elsewhere.
In November 2008 the BBC reported a senior race official, Qiu Weichang, as suggesting that the loss-making race might be cancelled.
The decision to close down the Third Programme was opposed by many within the BBC, some of them senior figures.
Press TV called Ofcom's ruling " part of an anti-Iranian campaign ," and that " A quick look at senior decision makers at OFCOM demonstrates that the regulator is mostly made up of former Channel 4 and BBC executives, some of whom are well-linked to and influenced by powerful pro-Israeli politicians.
Salmon rejoined the BBC at a difficult time, when it was losing many senior executives such as Jackson to rival broadcasters.
He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media.
He was percipient about New Media and the imminent upheavals the Internet would bring and made sure that the BBC had a head start ”, but he also had “ a leadership bypass, an inability to charm and persuade ” and his faith in out of date management theories about structure led to “ just more irrelevant bureaucratic supervision from senior management ...

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